"Velvet" #3 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting has Velvet hot on the trail of the truth about X-14, after the first two issues, which introduced the circumstances that spurred her to reactivate herself as an intelligence agent.

Veteran artist Brent Anderson contributes a few pages to Brian Michael Bendis and Brandon Peterson's "All-New X-Men" #21, but this introduction succeeds mostly at making the rest of the issue look weaker in comparison.

With "Forever Evil" in full swing, Matt Kindt, Tom Derenick and Eddy Barrows team Stargirl with Martian Manhunter, but the story in "Justice League of America" #11 falls short of the promise in that premise.

When New York City suffers another disaster, Otto sees an opportunity to study Inhuman tech that winds up taking a personal turn in Christos Gage and Stephanie Hans' "Inhumanity: The Superior Spider-Man" #1.

Spider-Man fights Venom, except Venom is Spider-Man and the Avengers show up to try to help while Goblins tiptoe through the shadows in the Dan Slott-written, Humberto Ramos-drawn "Superior Spider-Man" #25.

It's a super sparkly day in Gotham, as "Gothtopia" gets rolling in Gail Simone and Robert Gill's "Batgirl" #27, but a brutal villain contrasts the idyllic setting and a sense of uneasiness is pervasive in this impressive and

It's not entirely clear what Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, and Howard Porter are aiming for with "Justice League 3000" #2, but at the same time it's an intriguing mess as the team bickers and gets trounced.

"Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird" #1 is a fun first collaboration between the Disney brand and Marvel Comics, but be warned that writer Brandon Seifert and artist Karl Moline are building worlds, not investigating established ones.